Week 3 (Jan 27-29)
Our New Website is Up!
We’re so glad you’re here! We’ve just launched our new website, and we hope you’ll take a few minutes to look around and make yourself at home. You can explore the issues we care about under the Issues tab, find upcoming meetings and events, and learn more about our Action Groups and Student Eagles. There’s a lot happening, and we’re excited to share it with you, so poke around and see what’s new!
New Bills This Week
Easy Access To Ivermectin
HP146 Rep. Rigsby
BILL DESCRIPTION: This bill would permit a physician, a physician assistant, or a certified registered nurse practitioner to give a pharmacist a standing order to dispense Ivermectin to individuals without an individual prescription. The standing order would contain a protocol providing the pharmacist with guidelines for providing Ivermectin to individuals who request it.
BILL STATUS: House Health Committee held a public hearing on this bill. Eagle Forum testified in favor. No vote was taken.
OUR POSITION: We support this bill. View public hearing is at this link. Start video at the 10:00 min mark.
Laken Riley Act
HB13 Rep. Yarbrough
BILL DESCRIPTION (in a nutshell): This bill would provide that state and local law enforcement agencies may enter into memoranda of understanding and agreements with the United States Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and any other federal agency for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration and customs laws and the detention, removal, and investigation of illegal aliens and the immigration status of any individual in this state.
BILL STATUS: Bill passed out of House Judiciary and is headed to the House floor.
OUR POSITION: We support this bill.
Protecting Children From Marijuana Smoke
HB72 Rep. Sellers
BILL DESCRIPTION: Current law already makes it illegal to smoke tobacco in a car with a child and prohibits marijuana use altogether. This bill adds a specific penalty for smoking marijuana in a vehicle when a child is present—whether the car is moving or parked and whether the windows are open or closed. A violation would be a Class A misdemeanor, and the court would require the offender to complete an in-person education course created by the Alabama Department of Public Health on the dangers of drug and marijuana use around children.
BILL STATUS: Bill passed the House 77-2
OUR POSITION: We support this.
No Foreign Money In AL Elections
HB214 Rep. Lomax
BILL DESCRIPTION: This bill would prohibit foreign nationals from contributing to campaigns, ballot measures, political parties, or political action committees and prohibit political parties, political action committees, principal campaign committees, and others from soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals.
BILL STATUS: Bill passed out of House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee
OUR POSITION: We support this bill.
Homeschoolers Can Partcipate in Career Tech
HB183 Rep. DuBose
BILL DESCRIPTION: This bill would allow home school students to participate in career and technical education programs at public schools, except that full-time, stand-alone career and technical education schools may choose whether to opt in to home school student participation.
BILL STATUS: Passed out House Education Policy and is headed to the House Floor.
OUR POSITION: We support this bill.
Protecting Kids from Online Solicitation
HB105 Rep. Gidley
BILL DESCRIPTION (in a nutshell): This bill makes it a crime to use electronic communication to knowingly or intentionally try to persuade, groom, or coerce a child (or someone believed to be a child) who is at least three years younger to engage in a sex offense or genital mutilation.
BILL STATUS: The bill passed the Full house and is headed to the Senate
OUR POSITION: We support this bill.
Library Board Members Can Be Removed
SB26 Sen. Elliott
BILL DESCRIPTION: This bill would provide that library board members serve at the pleasure of their respective appointing authority, and by two-thirds vote may be removed by their respective appointing authority.
BILL STATUS: Bill passed out of Senate County and Municipal Government and is headed to the Senate floor.
OUR POSITION: We support this bill
More Bills That Moved
HB41-Rep Simpson – Passed full House and is headed to the Senate. Bill increases penalties for sexual crimes against minors. (Details in Week 1.)
HB71-Rep. Ross – Passed full House and is headed to the Senate. Bill creates age-appropriate screen-time guidelines for child-care facilities, prekindergarten, and kindergarten. (Details in Week 2.)
HB161-Rep. Sells – Passed out of Senate Children and Youth Health Committee and is headed to the Senate floor. Eagle Forum testified in favor during the public hearing. (Details in Week 1.)
Update "Sound Science" Bill - Two Conservative Principles in Tension
In week 2, we raised strong concerns and sent out an action alert about SB71 / HB162 the “Sound Science” bill because protecting Alabama families, drinking water, and public health is important to Eagle Forum of Alabama.
Those concerns are real, and they deserve to be taken seriously.
However, as we have continued to review this legislation more closely, we believe it’s important to present a balanced analysis to help you understand why many conservatives, including those within agriculture industries, and lawmakers with whom we are generally in agreement, see this bill differently. Read more.
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